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...have recently been examining some of the bills that I paid during my freshman year. Here is one of them, which I confess I thought rather large, but which I paid, being a freshman and thinking it all right, always having heard a good deal of talk about Cambridge high prices...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Janitors. | 2/5/1885 | See Source »

...writer, having established his point, goes on with pardonable pride and recounts at great length the eminent men connected with the august assembly to which he himself belongs. This will undoubtedly be very interesting reading for our subscribers, but we confess that we fail to see exactly what bearing this list of notables has upon the subject under discussion. We do not think the facts affect the position of the CRIMSON. We attempted to show that to exclude Negroes, simply because they were Negroes, was manifestly unfair, and could not react with good effect upon Harvard, and this point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/2/1885 | See Source »

...courses in Technical Astronomu, but a popular course, with little or no mathematics, on the same plan as some of the elementary courses in Natural History, notably N. H. 4. It is really pitiful to see the woeful ignorance of college men on subjects girl would be ashamed to confess her ignorance. Yet in Astronomy, a subject which should be familiar to every one, we are all practically unable to gain even the slightest knowledge, although our facilities for observation are unsurpassed, in this country at least...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/21/1885 | See Source »

When, however, the statement is made that "in the opinion of Harvard,-a neutral body,-Yale is the champion for 1884," we confess that the fancy is carried a little too far. Harvard expressly stated, in a mass meeting of the students, that she did not agree with nor approve the sentiments expressed in the letter sent down by three private individuals to Yale, and we would call the attention of Captain Richards and the Yale News to this statement again. We do not care to enter into any controversy between Yale and Princeton. The foot ball championship has been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/17/1884 | See Source »

...actually descended into this mystery of mysteries, into the place whence has arisen the savor of many a meal in process of preparation. We must confess that it was with some misgivings that we started on our tour of inspection. It has been said that if we once could behold the manipulations of the "culinary artists," we would never again be able to enjoy a dinner without the horrible vision rising before our eyes. But let it be said to the credit of the steward and the management, that, although we were there at a time when there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Kitchen in Memorial. | 12/10/1884 | See Source »

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